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...went. For 15 minutes the chase led on through labyrinths of twisted alleys and courtyards. Captain Antonio Perenze, leader of the carabinieri, hid in a doorway. A stalking figure crept up, machine gun set. Perenze blasted pointblank. The figure whirled, tottered and fell face down, a dark red splotch welling up under his white shirt...
Cooled by the Humboldt Current, the islands are not as hot as might be expected. Mists shroud the tops of the 2,000 volcanic crater cones that splotch the group's 2,800 square miles; on all but the shore the climate is humid. The handful of inhabitants, mostly Ecuadorians and Scandinavians, grow coffee and sugar cane, raise cattle on the craters' slopes. In the '30s, the islands became famed in U.S. Sunday supplements because of a bizarre free-love colony founded by a German dentist, which came to an unhappy end with the violent deaths...
General Lee is middle-sized, thin-lipped, softspoken. He sports the proudest, fiercest thatch of mustache this side of London. His eyes are a pale, noncommittal blue, the right pupil marred by a splotch of white-a mark left by a polo ball 20 years...
Brookfield Dumb-Bell, named for the lemon dumbbell-shaped splotch on his side, was a runt. But he was a champion's son and when his turn came he, too, won the top U. S. bird dog championship, the National Field Trials on the Hobart Ames plantation at Grand Junction, Tenn. One autumn when he had grown old and too slow for quail, the little setter's master took him away from his familiar brush and stubble to the thick pines of Minnesota to hunt grouse. Out of his master's sight one grey afternoon...
...more a case of bloodling through. For the past five years China has had a compact, mobile, self-styled "Red State"-a vast semi-bandit group of Chinese Communists under able native Red generals, propagandists and administrators who in 1931 had established a Provisional Government in a large splotch of China some 200 miles in diameter, perilously close to the Chinese Government at Nanking (see map). This Red State today can be roughly compared to those of such old-time Asiatic nomad conquerors as Genghis Khan, whose traveling bureaucrats pitched their tents and unraveled their red tape wherever the Great...